RAIN 060626 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Major recycling move Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA ... 8, 2005, when Mike Harris, director of the Medina County (Ohio) District Library, contacted the Louisiana State Library to see if a bookmobile that was about ... <http://www.nola.com/entertainment/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-6/115129970 049140.xml&coll=1> Google Gets An F Forbes - USA Good enough to find private records for hundreds of North Carolina public school ... when the company complied with a local court order to delete all information ... <http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/06/26/search-school-privacy_cx_rr_ 0626google.html> At risk of exposure Los Angeles Times - CA,USA In the push for electronic medical records, concern is growing about how well privacy can be safeguarded. PATIENTS of the land, unite! ... <http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-privacy26jun26,1,7949646.co lumn?coll=la-headlines-health> Historian: Washington County in desperate need of archives Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA ... the archives, while retaining its noncourt-related offices, such as the register of deeds, trustee, assessor ... We have primarily loose court documents with some ... <http://www.timesnews.net/community_article.php?id=253> Council member: Sensitive info available on county Web site Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA ... his office is required by law to keep public records like deeds, mortgages and ... initiated, the decision was made to not display images of documents that almost ... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/275386_records26ww.html> Accounts show history unfolding Detroit Free Press - United States ... Washington's letter is part of a new exhibit, "Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives," designed to portray history in the words of the ... <http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/FEATURES01/6062 60321/1026> Bank archives offer peek into noted clients' lives Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... whether to donate, display or store what it has inherited, but it is sensitive to the history involved, said John Tydings, director of the archives project. ... <http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14901916.htm> Web site with death records gets 1 million hits Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA ... of Missouri death certificates that went online April 6 had more than 1 million visitors within five weeks, officials with the Missouri State Archives said. ... <http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14905531.htm> Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward? Silicon.com - UK ... of a building that housed paper files and cost ... companies are happy just to keep electronic records.". ... expense comes from staff printing out documents at their ... <http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/governance/0,3800011701,3 9159888,00.htm> Missing documents obscure Canada's environmental history Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada ... sold in Canada between 1060 and 1985, and that it contained 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T: "Unfortunately, the PMRA has no physical records (data submission) of the files. ... <http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=753f6f90-efdd-4ff 3-9c48-05e4b91a662e&k=47220> Aussie hi-tech police lose 3500 banking records Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK ... police were in the middle of an investigation when the classified documents were lost ... had their name, post code and banking details recorded in files stored on ... <http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32642> UK terror files lost in street PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA ... police said on Monday they had reviewed procedures for handling sensitive intelligence after an officer's bag containing equipment and documents was lost in a ... <http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id =7411&Itemid=69> TROUBLING QUESTION: County may elect to change Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Veagas,NV,USA ... recorder and transfer duties to the Clark County clerk. ... Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, cited other concerns about electing a recorder. ... <http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jun-26-Mon-2006/news/8123955 .html> Digital files raise security concerns Boston Globe - United States ... is becoming a problem, they say, as communities in Massachusetts and around the country experiment with ways to share electronic records between providers. ... <http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/06/26/digital_fi les_raise_security_concerns> Electronic records help speed social workers’ response to ... ComputerWeekly.com - UK Social workers at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council are responding more quickly to emergencies after introducing electronic social care records for all new ... <http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/06/27/216644/Electronic+reco rds+help+speed+social+workers%E2%80%99+response+to.htm> Head of CIO issues decision on electronic transactions Bahrain News Agency - Bahrain ... have to abide by such as the use of trustworthy information systems and Unicodes for storing, sending and receiving compressed electronic records and abiding ... <http://english.bna.bh/?ID=46710> Standards group issues guidance for e-doc systems FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA ... include Andrew Taylor, assistant director for Records and Information Management Services at the Georgia Archives; John Breeden, agency records manager for the ... <http://www.fcw.com/article95046-06-27-06-Web> New York Times, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 8:53 PM PDT How Atlanta Was Able to Retain Dr. King's Papers http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/us/27king.html Mayor Shirley Franklin secured a loan allowing a nonprofit organization to avoid an auction and buy papers belonging to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Idaho Statesman, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 1:17 AM PDT Moving can be a challenge when your files go back to 1864 <<http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/NEWS0 1/606260313&SearchID=73249273506145>> Vast collections of paper records are stashed in vaults and corners all over the Capitol building — collections that must be packed up and moved before the $114 million renovation and expansion begins. <http://shrinkster.com/gb6> WLUC TV 6, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 2:41 AM PDT NMU Receives Large Donation http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=5039408&nav=menu134_2_7 A former Ishpeming resident who left the Upper Peninsula when he was 10 and went on to be a leading atomic scientist, gave something back to the U.P. TechWeb via Yahoo! News, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 2:41 PM PDT In Focus: Document Automation Requires More Than Scanning http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060627/tc_cmp/189601655 Document imaging offers one way to bring paper documents up to Internet speeds. Computer Weekly, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 4:04 AM PDT Belgium government drives adoption of open source Open Document Format http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/06/27/216634/Belgium +government+drives+adoption+of+open+source+Open+Document.htm The Belgium government has decided to adopt the open source Open Document Format (ODF) across its operations. RedNova, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 6:09 AM PDT Protecting Client Data http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/551269/protecting_client_data/ind ex.html?source=r_technology By McCarthy, Ed Think you're too small to be noticed? Think again. If your clients have inquired recently about how you protect their confidential data, their concern is understandable. 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